Originally Posted by memento
Here’s the theory.When you start your penis is hopefully not used to stress, and minimal amounts can make you grow.
If you are continually gaining you keep the tissue in a weakened state, by preventing full healing. This makes further gains easier.
If you stop for a while, the penis has a chance to heal fully and strengthen to resist the forces, to which it is now used.
So the upshot is starting with the minimal amount of force required to gain, and slowly ramping it up only as gains slow but never stopping to allow full healing is a way to guarantee best growth with the minimum amount of force and time spent.
Even using this method the penis is likely to gain strength, and techniques like modifying the routine from very length based to very girth based, to mix it up a bit, may be needed to continue gaining while sticking to reasonable levels of stress (ie those unlikely to cause injury).
Discuss.
I think the Holy Grail of PE is finding the stress/strain levels and the required duration of them that encourage growth. The trouble is the biological processes that produce tissue growth are so slow and our ability to measure them is so imprecise that to conduct a proper investigation where only one variable is altered might take six months to perform.
There are many variables like type of exercise (eg hanging, jelqing, stretching, clamping, Ulis, pumping, ADS), intensity of the exercises (eg weight, pressure) and the duration (eg 10min to 10 hours a day) of the exercises. Other factors can also be brought in like the use of heat, individual characteristics. Considering all the ways these factors can be combined a human life is insufficient to conduct a proper investigation.
We are therefore forced to cooperate and pool our knowledge. The trouble with that is that we have no real way of knowing if we are all applying the same standards when we make our claims of results. Sometimes I doubt whether we can even measure the most basic things in a consistent way that would allow the experience of an other member to be relied on. Not because they were being untruthful but because they had a different interpretation of what they were doing or measuring.
I think after a year of PE I’m slowly beginning to separate the wheat from the chaff and maybe in a year’s time I’ll have found what works for me. If I do I’ll post it here and hope it helps someone else along the road. I think really that’s the best any of us can do and what this place is all about.